Officials Focus On Inequalities In Medical Research
The Houston Chronicle reports that officials are trying to find a way to encourage more minorities to join the medical research trials for new treatments.
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Mass. Municipalities Could Be Hard Hit By Cadillac Tax
State roundup: New York high court refuses to order access for lawyers to some psychiatric patients; San Francisco officials begin advising HIV patients to immediately begin antiviral treatment; Maine passes ban on health benefits cap.
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New Health Law Will Ban Future Physician-Owned Hospitals; The Trauma And Cost Of Patient “Dumping”
Ban on new doctor-owned hospitals will also limit development in existing facilities.
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Few Veterans Seek Review Of Disability Rating, Panel Finds
"Only a small fraction of wounded veterans who could get better benefits have applied in the two years since Congress, acting on concerns the military was cutting costs by downplaying injuries, ordered the Pentagon to review disputed claims," The Associated Press reports.
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States, Hospital Systems Puzzling Over Possible Effects Of Health Reform
Doctors, health clinics and hospitals are all contemplating the future of health care under the health reform law.
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Health Law May Worsen Primary Care Doctor Shortage
The new health law, which likely gives 32 million more Americans access to insurance, may worsen the shortage of primary care doctors.
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Medical Billing Errors Create Significant Costs For Patients
It's estimated that at least 3 percent of all health care spending - roughly $68 billion - is lost to fraud and billing errors annually. Some patients and families turn to medical billing advocates for help.
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Sebelius: High Risk Health Insurance Pools To Begin Soon
News outlets covered the next step in covering hard-to-insure Americans with high-risk pools being established by the beginning of July.
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Health IT Funding Raises Security Concerns; Some Hospitals Face Barrier To Funding
Government spending on health information technology has prompted questions of whether electronic records can actually save money, and whether health data stored in them is secure.
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First Edition: April 5, 2010
Todays early morning highlights from the major news organiztions, including reports about how lawmakers are faring in their districts during this congressional recess. News outlets also are exploring the potential impacts of specific provisions of the new law.
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In Mass., Customers Buying Short-Term Insurance Increases Costs For All
There is growing concern in Massachusetts that people are signing up for coverage in the independent health insurance market only when they need it then dropping it when they don't.
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Health Care Reform Law Still Generating Lots Of Questions
News organizations continue looking into the effects of the new health care law.
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Wall Street Journal Examines Railway Hospital In India
The Wall Street Journal examines Lifeline Express, "the world's first hospital on rails," which is run by Impact India, a group that "initially focused on immunization and prevention of diseases such as polio and malaria." Its success has spread to China and Zimbabwe, where three Lifeline Express trains are operated, and to "hospital river boats based on the India model have been set up to tend to patients in Bangladesh and Cambodia." It has also been used as a model for other health projects in India, according to the newspaper.
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European Commission Rolls Out New Food Security Policies; Agricultural Research Conference Concludes
The European Commission (EC) recently announced that it has adopted two new policy frameworks "to help developing countries address food security in emergency and long-term situations" and has called upon member nations to implement similar policies, IRIN reports.
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NewsHour Examines Research Of HIV Positive Patients Who Can Suppress The Virus
PBS' NewsHour examines how a team of U.S. researchers are heading up a study in Lima, Peru, of patients living with HIV whose immune systems are able to supress the virus. "Peru has identified 600 so-called elites, whose HIV infections have not progressed into life-threatening AIDS, and researchers are looking at them and other identified elites from around the world to understand why," according to the program.
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VOA News Examines Water Conditions In Asian-Pacific Region
VOA News examines how growing populations and industrialization are contributing to deteriorating water conditions in the Asian-Pacific region
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Obama Promotes Health Bill, Asks People To Give It Time To Work
President Obama continued his effort to sell the new health reform law, urging patience from the public while chiding Republican opponents.
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Health Overhaul Roundup: New Law Will Cover Young Adults, But Details Are Still Vague
Reports examine implications of the overhaul law, including a provision that will allow children to remain on their parents' insurance plans until age 26, an expansion of IRS responsibilities and extra money for community clinics.
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